the first acceptance from Z.H. Gill's recent sub call is this banger from HAD first round draft pick, Julián Martinez !! https://www.havehashad.com/r2ld2
Julián Martinez
@martinezfjulian.bsky.social
Son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants // debut book of fictions + novella from Future Tense Books, Spring 2027 Chicago forever.
NEON NIGHT MIC ON SEPT. 2! 📚 I’m so stoked for this lineup. Most folks are traveling from out of town to be with us. Hope to see you there! 🎤 @clairehopple.bsky.social 🎤 @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🎤 @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social 🎤 Jonathan Cardew 🎤 @jessicawalsh.bsky.social 🎤 @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
DAMN I need to double my skulls if I plan on reaching the top 😭💀 @havehashad.com hell of a leaderboard (happy to be tied for bronze alongside @adrianf.bsky.social & below goats @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social)
readings? On a PODCAST?? Here are portions of @saramatson.bsky.social @bridgetgordon.gay @martinezfjulian.bsky.social at our reading last week! 🍎 : podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/0qAZ... SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/lazyandentit...
A Sampler of Poetry Reading
Podcast Episode · The Lazy & Entitled Podcast · 25 June · 31min
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reading tonight absolutely could not have gone better. Such cool shit from every poet! Brendan’s music was a mood-lifter as always! Meeting internet friends irl! Performing is so fuckin fun big ups to @saramatson.bsky.social @bridgetgordon.gay @martinezfjulian.bsky.social for reading with us!
we also hype up our reading, which is LESS THAN A WEEK and featuring @martinezfjulian.bsky.social @bridgetgordon.gay and @saramatson.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to see this read live and trust me you want to read this one
Julián Martinez@martinezfjulian.bsky.social · 4mo agonew story out in @burialmagazine.bsky.social today! it’s a love letter to my buddy, twin and partner in mad science, the one and only @neonpajamas.bsky.social, called “Twin” burialmagazine.neocities.org/twin
Julián is the best. Burial Mag is the best. This is the best. 👯♂️
Julián Martinez@martinezfjulian.bsky.social · 4mo agonew story out in @burialmagazine.bsky.social today! it’s a love letter to my buddy, twin and partner in mad science, the one and only @neonpajamas.bsky.social, called “Twin” burialmagazine.neocities.org/twin
new story out in @burialmagazine.bsky.social today! it’s a love letter to my buddy, twin and partner in mad science, the one and only @neonpajamas.bsky.social, called “Twin” burialmagazine.neocities.org/twin
Twin
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new story excerpt from a longer work-in-progress out in the Michigan City Review of Books today! it’s about an imaginary friend named Bunny and the Satanism of the military industrial complex. if you’re the sicko who wants to know where the two things meet, you’re in luck: mcrb.neocities.org/bunny
BUNNY IS GRACE'S IMAGINARY FRIEND by Julián Martinez
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"If you ask for the Moon, you get dead silence at the register until you ask for something else" Love the voice in this piece from @martinezfjulian.bsky.social; how it loops around on itself; the use of repeating motifs
Julián Martinez@martinezfjulian.bsky.social · 5mo agonew work in @bulbregion.bsky.social this week! 1,00 word excerpt from a long, long story (novella territory) called Moon Deluxe. it’s very new, and it’s different for me, shoutout @futuretensebooks.bsky.social, shoutout Frederick Barthelme! bulbregion.com/Moon-Deluxe-...
new work in @bulbregion.bsky.social this week! 1,00 word excerpt from a long, long story (novella territory) called Moon Deluxe. it’s very new, and it’s different for me, shoutout @futuretensebooks.bsky.social, shoutout Frederick Barthelme! bulbregion.com/Moon-Deluxe-...
Moon Deluxe, by Julián Martínez — The Bulb Region
Moon Deluxe — Julián Martínez an excerpt from the novella Moon Deluxe THERE IS...
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Many people are comparing myself & @martinezfjulian.bsky.social to the Bash Brothers in the 1994 film D2: The Mighty Ducks, so it was extra special when our writing went live on the same day over on @bulbregion.bsky.social
this past weekend at Storyfort in Boise, Idaho, I got a surprise on-stage offer to publish my debut collection, stories and a novella, with @futuretensebooks.bsky.social in 2027. Here’s the whole moment— once in a lifetime. no april fools, I keep having to tell myself. THANK YOU storyfort peeps!!!!
There'll be two new pieces on the website tomorrow (for the first time on a Thursday), but first, we recommend that you read these two delicious prose poems by our contributor Julián Martinez (@martinezfjulian.bsky.social) in Farewell Transmission. farewelltransmission.net/2024/12/two-...
2 Prose Poems - Farewell Transmission
WD-40 - The key was having a harder and harder time with the lock. The lock was having a harder and harder time with the door. . .
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“I remember dancing my pants off and almost dancing off a beautiful stranger’s until she figured out I was lying about not speaking good English.” @martinezfjulian.bsky.social’s piece "Night Fever" • Bee Gees is sick. 🔥🤒 Check it out in Vol. 26! www.major7mag.com/post/night-f...
"Night Fever" • Bee Gees (by Julián Martinez)
You think I’m a sick puppy?
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🚨 The brilliant @martinezfjulian.bsky.social has a book of short fictions coming out with Future Tense Books next year, and his new piece in The Bulb Region today is an excerpt from that larger body of work. So read him, share him & congratulate him if you can!!! bulbregion.com/Moon-Deluxe-...
Moon Deluxe, by Julián Martínez — The Bulb Region
Moon Deluxe — Julián Martínez an excerpt from the novella Moon Deluxe THERE IS...
bulbregion.com
hey this is great
The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨 The brilliant @martinezfjulian.bsky.social has a book of short fictions coming out with Future Tense Books next year, and his new piece in The Bulb Region today is an excerpt from that larger body of work. So read him, share him & congratulate him if you can!!! bulbregion.com/Moon-Deluxe-...
Oh, my gosh, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social absolutely smashed down the door to start the reading. If you don't think his city is stronger than yours, you're wrong. #AWP #AWP26 (2 of ?)
Neon Night Mic brings me so much joy grateful for this ongoing reading series & this literary community @thecorlew.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social / @lakemarkham.bsky.social / @ljabouttown.bsky.social / @whistlerchicago.bsky.social
The bill is set for the 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading at 6 p.m. March 4, Wednesday, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fourteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26
hex literary is excited to announce our 3rd official AWP offsite reading! If you'll be in Baltimore in a few weeks, we invite you to an evening of flash-fire readings from some of our incredible contributors. We'll be @ Current Space on Friday (3/6). Doors @ 6. We hope to see you there!! 🧙
The 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading returns to AWP at 6 p.m. March 4 at Metro Baltimore, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fifteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26
The 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading returns to #AWP at 6 p.m. March 4 @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fifteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song.
Neon Night Mic RETURNS! 📚 See you Feb. 25 at @whistlerchicago.bsky.social 🎤 Liza Hudock 🎤 @lakemarkham.bsky.social 🎤 @ljabouttown.bsky.social 🎤 @martinezfjulian.bsky.social 🎤 @catkinspoet.bsky.social 🎤 @thecorlew.bsky.social
And Cartoons by @martinezfjulian.bsky.social really makes me smile. “See ya at work tomorrow!” www.havehashad.com/hadposts/car...
Cartoons by Julián Martinez
The rental car the insurance company gave me after the accident was great— wireless Bluetooth speaker, heated seats. What was different was that the car horn wasn’t a one-note beep. It went, “I SAY! I...
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